You are cordially invited to participate in the Alpine Operad Workshop, to be held at the Swiss ski resort of Villars-sur-Ollon, from March 6 through March 9, 2006. The workshop will consist of 15 lectures on recent research in operad theory, with plenty of time for informal mathematical discussion and skiing. Confirmed speaker thus far are: Clemens Berger (Nice) Michael Ching (MIT) Beno=EEt Fresse (Lille) Muriel Livernet (Paris XIII) Martin Markl (Prague) Peter May (Chicago) Ieke Moerdijk (Utrecht) Dev Sinha (Oregon) Jeff Smith (Purdue) For futher information and to register for the workshop, please visit the workshop web page at http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~ppare779/AlpOperadW.htm . Since the number of places available is limited to 40, we encourage you to register as soon as possible, if you are interested. Kathryn Hess Paul-Eug=E8ne Parent Jonathan Scott 31-May-2005 13:41:34 -0300,1005;000000000000-00000011